Serious Update Issues - Vista 64 Home Premium, Service Pack 2

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EDIT: Problem solved.


I have the Windows Automatic Update feature turned off. Every couple of weeks I manually update and install only critical and what I deem as necessary for my machine updates. Everything went fine the end of October, updates successfully installed. I also installed the English language pack as my OS was in German. I don't think the language pack has anything to do with the problems I'm about to describe. In early November I went to do a manual update and got this screen:

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OK, it's telling me that I need to update the updater. No big deal there. But, it's also telling me that I NEVER checked for updates and updates were NEVER installed. Not true, according to the next window I've got 112 updates in installed:

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Anyways, I continue to update the updater. It then tells me it can't complete the job and says to restart the computer and try to update again, which I did:

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So, during the restart I get the message "Do not shut the computer down, update in progress" or something similar. Then while rebooting it shows the same message with a % status of completion. When the desktop appeared and everything settled down, I go to do a manual update again, and here's where the sh*t hits the fan. Check this window out:

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So I do a System Restore to get back where I was before the updater update. Things were back to normal. I tried to update a few more times but always got the results shown above. So I did one more System Restore to get back to normal and stay there. Things went well until a couple of days ago when during a boot up I get the message "Do not shut the computer down, update in progress" or something similar with a % status of completion. I didn't download anything to install! I got suspicious and went to do a Windows Update and got this window:

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So what can I do now to get the updater to work properly? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
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Thanks for the info guys, for lack of time I'll have to wait until the weekend to try the suggestions out. I'm still fuming over this........:mad:
 

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    CPU
    Intel Q9650 4 x 3.00GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q SE
    Memory
    OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Gold Edition, 1066MHz, 8GB
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - 1GB DDR3 RAM
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC1200
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hanns G
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1084
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD; WD VelociRaptor 3000HLFS - 300GB 10,000RPM; Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB 7200RPM
    PSU
    Be Quiet! Dark Power 750 Watt
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    Black with silver trim & blue lights
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    Huge case fan
    Mouse
    MS optical mouse
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    Acer
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    DSL 2000
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    Configured as a Gamer for Flight Simulators, Saitek X52 Flight Controler
when i installed SP2 for vista on my machine, it gave me the "windows is not genuine" watermark at the bottom right hand of the screen and made my desktop background black.

I got this fixed by getting help from a microsoft representative through Easy Assist (remote assistance program for microsoft technical support). All they did was reload the Software Licensing and Distribution service code and i could then reactivate windows by putting my key in again

LONG STORY SHORT: its most likely a service corruption with update.
 

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Thanks brummyfan & Flavius but the following didn't work: SFC repair, resetting the whole WU in aggressive mode, reinstalling the WU Agent, uninstalling all third-party security software, and changing the Background Intelligent Transfer Service service settings from AUTO (DELAYED) to AUTO and starting the service manually. I guess the next thing to try is microsoft technical support as MDA400 mentioned. Or reinstall the OS........

Thanks again.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
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    Intel Q9650 4 x 3.00GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q SE
    Memory
    OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Gold Edition, 1066MHz, 8GB
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - 1GB DDR3 RAM
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC1200
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hanns G
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1084
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD; WD VelociRaptor 3000HLFS - 300GB 10,000RPM; Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB 7200RPM
    PSU
    Be Quiet! Dark Power 750 Watt
    Case
    Black with silver trim & blue lights
    Cooling
    Huge case fan
    Mouse
    MS optical mouse
    Keyboard
    Acer
    Internet Speed
    DSL 2000
    Other Info
    Configured as a Gamer for Flight Simulators, Saitek X52 Flight Controler
I think you're right there Flavius, I just changed back to the original language (German) and the dialogue windows seem to be in order again. They went from this:

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To this:

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So the language pack was the issue the whole time. Strange that it only interferreed with the WU dialogue boxes, I didn't have these problems with any other programs. Let's call this one solved. Many thanks.
 
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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Configured
    CPU
    Intel Q9650 4 x 3.00GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5Q SE
    Memory
    OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Gold Edition, 1066MHz, 8GB
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - 1GB DDR3 RAM
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC1200
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hanns G
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 1084
    Hard Drives
    OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD; WD VelociRaptor 3000HLFS - 300GB 10,000RPM; Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB 7200RPM
    PSU
    Be Quiet! Dark Power 750 Watt
    Case
    Black with silver trim & blue lights
    Cooling
    Huge case fan
    Mouse
    MS optical mouse
    Keyboard
    Acer
    Internet Speed
    DSL 2000
    Other Info
    Configured as a Gamer for Flight Simulators, Saitek X52 Flight Controler
5er driver said:
I think you're right there Flavius, I just changed back to the original language (German) and the dialogue windows seem to be in order again. They went from this:
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I remembered on polish Vista such kind of things alo happends.Unfortunately Vistalizator is not perfect tool :shock:. Make sure you have the newest version this program.
 

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